Literary Figures
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In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
$16.95 Add to cartWhether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 0679760237
- Language: English
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
$34.95 Add to cartJack Kerouac was one of America’s great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher J
- Author: Maher, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 158979687X
- Language: English
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Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography
$20.00 Read moreNo writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel Garc a M rquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: García Márquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 140003454X
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures That Inspired Frank Herbert
$35.00 Add to cart“An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation.”
Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become
– Empire Magazine- Author: Huddleston, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711282110
- Language: English
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
“I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O’Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her lett- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374521042
- Language: English
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Small Memories
$13.95 Add to cart“Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer.”–Washington Post
Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0547752636
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$18.00 Add to cartIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980301
- Language: English
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Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures
$25.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia’s most controversial figures This is how E- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074835
- Language: English
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cart“A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.”–Entertainment Weekly
The revered New York Times bestselling author of Ho
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0063021722
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
$30.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings–the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158528
- Language: English
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Letters to Véra
$25.00 Add to cartNo marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to V?ra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasur… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0307476588
- Language: English
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey’s wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little bo- Author: Dery, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316188549
- Language: English
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One Writer’s Beginnings
$18.00 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American le… [more below]
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982152109
- Language: English
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Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartI sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love, says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323056
- Language: English
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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 – September 15, 1979
$19.00 Add to cart“In the sentence ‘She’s no longer suffering, ‘ to what, to whom does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?” –Roland Barthes, from his diary
The day after his mother’s death in October 1977,- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533113
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
$30.00 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira Kalman
Considered on- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1594204608
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Key West
$10.95 Add to cartThe only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho
- Author: McIver, Stuart B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 156164241X
- Language: English
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
$10.00 Read moreSlave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 048640661X
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$11.95 Add to cartThis gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth cent… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0811226220
- Language: English
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography
$22.99 Add to cart‘People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.’
Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of mor- Author: Wilkins, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1529176905
- Language: English
